Manuel Milà i Fontanals

Template:Short description Template:Expand Spanish Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox person Manuel Milà i Fontanals ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; May 4, 1818 – July 16, 1884) was a Spanish scholar. He was born at Vilafranca del Penedès, near Barcelona, and was educated first in Barcelona, and afterwards at the University of Cervera.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1845, he became professor of literature at the University of Barcelona, and held this post until his death at Vilafranca del Penedès on the July 16, 1884. The type of the scholarly recluse, Milà i Fontanals was almost unknown outside the walls of the university until 1859, when he was appointed president of the jocs florals at Barcelona.<ref name=":0" />

On the publication of his treatise, De Los trovadores en España (1866), his merits became more generally recognized, and his monograph, De la poesía heróico-popular castellana (1873) revealed him to foreign scholars as a master of scientific method.<ref name=":0" /> He brought the chivalric romance Curial e Güelfa to scholarly notice in 1876.<ref>John W. Wheeler (ed.), Curial and Guelfa: A Classic of the Crown of Aragon (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011), p. 1.</ref>

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External links

• Page about Manuel Milà i Fontanals by the Association of Catalan Language Writers. In English, Catalan and Spanish.

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